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Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Listening Lamposts

I bet they wont put these in Muslim areas, only white ones as whitey has less rights than minorities in this idiot banana republic.

HIGH-powered spy microphones on street lampposts are being used by snooping council officials to listen in on private conversations.

A network of new “intelligent” listening devices which can monitor discussions has been deployed on Britain’s streets for the first time.

The so-called Sigard system has been tested in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Coventry.

The microphones, connected to CCTV cameras, can recognise aggressive “trigger” words and sounds, then automatically direct cameras to zoom in on the speakers.

Manufacturers denied the system is used to record conversations.

It analyses sound patterns to pick out angry or distressed voices.

But the makers would not pledge that in the future Sigard would not be used to record whole sections of speech.

Privacy campaigners condemned the surveillance system, attacking it as another erosion of personal freedom.

News of the use of Sigard comes to light just days after around 200 cameras with number plate recognition software in Birmingham were mothballed when it emerged that they were being targeted at the city’s Asian districts.